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- Samar Khan is a Pakistani adventure athlete. She is the first woman in the world to have cycled on the third largest non-polar glacial system, Biafo Glacier and Godwin Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountains of Gilgit Baltistan. She is also the first Pakistani to have cycled on the roof of Africa, Kilimanjaro in 2017.
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Samar Khan is a Pakistani adventure athlete. [2][3] She is the first woman in the world to have cycled on the third largest non-polar glacial system, Biafo Glacier and Godwin Austen Glacier in the Karakoram mountains of Gilgit Baltistan. She is also the first Pakistani to have cycled on the roof of Africa, Kilimanjaro in 2017.
Jun 23, 2018 · RAAZI, Meghna Gulzar’s film starring Alia Bhatt opened a small window for the people to get a peep into the life of an unlikely superhero — Sehmat Khan, a young Kashmiri Muslim girl who takes on a spy mission in Pakistan, gets married to the son of a senior Pakistani army officer, kills people, gets pregnant, but saves India’s mighty aircraft ca...
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- An Adaptation of A Novel
- The Real Sehmat Khan
- Even Sehmat Khan Is A Fictional Name
- Story of Sehmat
- Sehmat: A True Patriot
Film ‘Raazi’ is an adaptation of Harinder Sikka‘s novel titled ‘Calling Sehmat.’ Harinder Sikka is a former Indian Navy officer. The novel ‘Calling Sehmat’ was brought out by Konark Publishers.
During an interview with The Hindu, Harinder Sikka explained how he unearthed the story of Sehmat. He said that during the 1999 Kargil War, he had visited Kargil to write media articles on the Indian Army’s alleged intelligence failure there. Sikka became furious over the intelligence failure and questioned the patriotism of certain people in the I...
Stumbled by the existence of any such woman, Harinder Sikka decided to pen down her story and named her Sehmat Khan, to allow her to remain in anonymity. It took Sikka 8 years to fictionalise her story. “It was important to fictionalise it as it would have been dangerous for her family,” Sikka says.
Inspired by the patriotic tale of Sehmat, Harinder Sikka tried to find out Sehmat and finally met her at her house in Maler Kotla, in Punjab. Initially, she was reluctant to speak. Slowly, she opened up about her journey as an undercover spy. Sehmat was the daughter of a Kashmiri Muslim businessman and married a Pakistani Army officer to provide In...
After her espionage stint in Pakistan, pregnant Sehmat returned to India, where she gave birth to her son who went on to become an Indian Army Officer. In lieu of her service to the nation, all she wanted was to unfurl the Indian National Flag at her house. Although the Indian Flag Code didn’t allow the tricolour to be unfurled at any private build...
May 11, 2018 · Author Harinder Sikka, whose ‘Calling Sehmat’ has been made into Alia Bhatt-starrer Raazi is set to reveal the identity of Sehmat. She was the Indian spy who passed on critical information ...
May 2, 2018 · Set during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, its titular character marries a Pakistani officer so she can acquire intelligence and pass it on to the Indian Navy. In real life, the spy's discovery of the Pakistani plot to sink INS Vikrant helped saved scores of lives.
Apr 12, 2018 · True story of Sehmat, the Indian spy who inspired Alia Bhatt’s Raazi. The trailer of Alia Bhatt ’s upcoming film Raazi has taken the social media by storm and we aren’t surprised. After all ...
Aug 2, 2022 · Filmmaker and producer Samar Khan has made a career telling acclaimed stories around the world of Indian Armed Forces and his latest show Shoorveer has managed to continue the glorious tradition ...
